Disallow the empty string as an attribute name

Previously, it was possible to have a line like "file.txt =foo" in a
.gitattribute file, after which an invocation like "git check-attr ''
-- file.txt" would succeed.  This patch disallows both constructs.

Please note that any existing .gitattributes file that tries to set an
empty attribute will now trigger the error message "error: : not a
valid attribute name" whereas previously the nonsense was allowed
through.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index 4a1244f9a..b1d1d6d79 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int invalid_attr_name(const char *name, int namelen)
 	 * Attribute name cannot begin with '-' and must consist of
 	 * characters from [-A-Za-z0-9_.].
 	 */
-	if (*name == '-')
+	if (namelen <= 0 || *name == '-')
 		return -1;
 	while (namelen--) {
 		char ch = *name++;